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Shifting SPIDer from WordPress to a Ghost Blog

Front-end Development

Shifting SPIDer from WordPress to a Ghost Blog

Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions are my own. As of now, I have never been involved professionally with Ghost or Wordpress Team. It's been almost three months since this blog has been migrated to Ghost. Previously, it was managed with WordPress which had been the "De-Facto standard" for maintaining self

"Painful People" By Cyrus Daruwala : Book Review

Book Review Featured

"Painful People" By Cyrus Daruwala : Book Review

The month of September was quite eventful for me. I rejuvenated my creative & technical skills attending events like Google For Mobile, JSFoo, ON's #HeathyIsYummy Workshop and Creative Mornings. Thanks @Mumbai_CM @creativemorning #Mumbai for a lovely morning today. @cyrusdaruwala great talk & books👍 #CMEmpathy pic.twitter.com/u710IOgIOE — Prashant Sani (@prashantsani)

MacBook-Pro(MBP) 13" Retina 2015 - Unboxing & First Impressions

Recently my Sony Viao gave up and This Diwali, I gifted myself a New MacBook Pro 13" Retina. Here are some of the Unboxing Pics. One of the most surprising things for me was the weight & the boot up time. It only takes around 10 seconds to boot and weighs

Events & Conferences

Google Mobile Summit 2015

Last Month I had been in Bangalore for "JSFOO". Since I had a extra Monday to kill,I thought of attending "Google For Mobile” Event. Here are some of the most interesting Ideas,thoughts and insights form the event shared through some of my tweets. At @googleindia #Google for #Mobile

Awwwards – book – the best 365 websites – 2013 : An Visual Review

Awwwards – book – the best 365 websites – 2013 : An Visual Review

The Book,released in early 2014 contains a compilation of all the websites that had been awarded as "Site of Day" during the year 2013 by Awwwards, a showcase website.The book also contains 7 project case studies. The book is complemented with an interactive app with augmented reality, offering

Book Review : Above the fold

Book Review : Above the fold

If there could be “One book to rule them all” for novice Web designers, it would be “Above The Fold“. This book goes through every subject/niche of designing websites : from Designing itself to topics like Project Planning; Marketing, SEO, creation of Sitemap, Wireframes, Prototypes,etc. (Illustrative chart on History

Book Review: Web Design - Navigation(Icon Series)

Book Review: Web Design - Navigation(Icon Series)

This sunday, As i went through my bookshelf, I found one of my oldest web-design books, “Web Design: Navigation (Icons)”. Although I purchased this book long back, I never reviewd it on SPIDer. So, Here is a brief review of the same. This inspirational book has around 180+ examples of

Indie Type: India's First Ever Typography Fest

“Indie Type” is one of the kind, India’s First digital Type Fest, held over the Internet Launched with an intention of designing an Open type that can be used over the internet by any individual. The contest targets the unexplored medium of Digital type, which lacks design and legibility.

Book Review : Life in Five Seconds

Book Review : Life in Five Seconds

“A picture can say a thousand words”. A couple of days ago, while surfing the web, I came across an Icon Only Book named “Life in five Seconds” . The book beautifully symbolizes concepts, people’s lives, movies etc. using series of icons. On the cover of the book, “Life” itself

Front-end Development

Introducing piggyBank.JS

Recently at Patkar Institute, Our Sir gave us an assignment to create a Piggy Bank in JavaScript. I started working on the same and thought to release it as a open source code so that the awesome front end team and collaburate and make an already awesome code more awesome!

Book Review : The Exquisite Book

Book Review : The Exquisite Book

In year 1920, Surrealists invented the very famous game, “Exquisite corpse”. People Involved in this game would be shown a part of illustration or drawing that the previous contributor has drawn/illustrated. Based on this, they would curate and draw the next part for the same. The Collaborative efforts, then

Officially Mactised :)

Officially Mactised :)

Sharing some unboxing photos of my first iMac 21" bought during October 2013.

Responsive Images

All about Responsive Images

One hundred at 360 degrees book review

One hundred at 360 degrees book review

There comes a time in life of every creative professional when he/she wants to just get off the screen and read books and explore world to instigate the creative juices of the brain. Even though there are many inspiration seeking websites like Behance ,Creattica, etc every designer must have

New Book Shelf

Recently, I bought a new book shelf for my book collection. The vintage look on the same looks great and since its closed and covered, my books will be well protected from dust and dirt :). Here are some pics…. I would love to have your thoughts on my new book

Thank You! Sitepoint

Thank You! Sitepoint

Sitepoint had a Xmas sale last month and the deals were Amazing. So, I ordered a Bundle of Printed Books(Killer UX Design,The Web Designer’s Road map, Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices) and the same were shipped on 27th of Dec,2012(within 2 days

Happy New Year :)

Happy New Year :)

Hello Friends, Hope you guys had an amazing New Years Eve Last Night. The Team of SPID.er wishes you all a very happy and successful new year. As promised here are some of the decoration pics ! :)

Happy Birthday SPIDer and Merry Xmas :)

Happy Birthday SPIDer and Merry Xmas :)

Hello Friends, My Blog has turned 1 year old on this auspicious day of “Christmas”. Last year has been amazing for me in terms of great projects like YCL, Shizuka,Yellow Slice, etc. I want to thank the the company I work for,Yellow Slice and everyone who has made

Smashing Book 3 First Look

Smashing Book 3 First Look

Guess What mailman delivered today? This year’s most anticipated book on my reading List, Smashing Book 3. Here is the first look of the book : When the book was available for pre-order, I ordered the book, So, they mentioned my name in the book. Here is a snapshot of

Dont Make Me Think Book Review

Dont Make Me Think Book Review

Introduction to Usability: “Its a product when design fulfills purpose, but a toy when it only attracts.” Imagine a website which has so many design elements that you have to think a lot to navigate from page X to page Y; Or a website which is so easy in terms

Happy April Fool's Day

You can Check Other Fun Infographics by clicking this link Got any Suggestions for Fun Infographics? Contact ne on twitter Thank You!!

Head First Wordpress Review

WordPress is by far, the best blogging platform ever. Being Free and Open source, it cherishes the largest theme & plug-in collection than any other blogging platforms. Head First WordPress is* the book* to get you acquainted with basics of WordPress Blogging. The book starts with explaining the two ways of

Fun Infographic on Digital Media

I Really love reading troll jokes that are rolling these days on Facebook and some websites like 9GAG, the Oatmeal, etc. So, I thought of making some of my own and start publishing on this site. So, here is the First One of the amazingly Awesome Fun Infographics(Yep! that’

Head First HTML (with CSS and xHTML) Book Review

Are you a Graphic Designer who knows the dangers of automated code? Or you are a beginner level Front End developer, who thoroughly gets confused with HTML tags and CSS? In any case this is the perfect book for you to start coding HTML & CSS. If you love reading books

Pleasures of ordering Books Online

Pleasures of ordering Books Online

Sharing unbiased thoughts on ordering books form an online store. Being an avid book reader and a e-shopping enthusiast, I am often asked to share my opinion on the same.